the day after

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an amazingly calm jessica smith gets locked out of her car. a quiet Sunday in the South on the minor american porch.

minor/american reading series

just wanted to let you all know that we have a few events coming up in November and then we will be on break in December.


11/2: kate greenstreet & chris vitiello

11/10: tony tost book party [time to be announced soonish.]

01/12/ 2008: Anne Boyer & Ken Rumble

February: Elise Ficarra & David Need.



April: we are taking April off because I am reading in St Louis for 8 Kates & Maggie has papers due!

May: is a special surprise that i can announce soonish i hope.

if you are an out-of-town poet that would like to come and read please let us know! we'd be more than happy to have you over!

cheers & see you soon.

string of small machines 3 is out and beautiful...


sabrina calle
harold abramowitz & amanda ackerman
kathryn l. pringle
cedar sigo
maureen thorson
mark lamoureux
brandon downing
roberto harrison
paul klinger
elizabeth robinson

cover: michael slosek


string of small machines is the house press poetry magazine, published in chicago, edited by luke daly, barrett gordon, and eric unger.

hey everyone,

i've been a little sick ever since maggie got well on saturday so i haven't been able to blog.

jessica, ashley, and brian were all REALLY great and it was a really fun night of squeezing 40 something folks into our not big enough house. we are looking into spaces for the reading series that can handle such crowds.

jessica did a write up on her time with us herelooktouch.

when i'm feeling better i will post some clips for you.

also, the film ashley & brian made will be posted on their website soon... i'll send a link when it is up.

thanks everyone for a great night and for showing up.

REMINDER: THIS SATURDAY

OCTOBER 6TH 2007
7PM, READING 8PM SHARP!
811 WILKERSON AVE
DURHAM, NC

ASHLEY HOWE & BRIAN HOWE
Ashley Howe and Brian Howe are neither married nor siblings (as far as they know). It's just a freaky coincidence. They've been excercising their creativity together for over a year. Specifically for this event, the Howes are creating a multimedia presentation revolving around the spontaneous instant of creation -- a sort of placeholder for an ongoing work that is always in flux, which more faithfully represents the spirit of their collaboration than the finished artifact.

JESSICA SMITH
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Jessica Smith received her B.A. summa cum laude in English and Comparative Literature and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo, where she participated in the Poetics Program and started the poetry magazine name. She devotes her free time to Outside Voices and the D.C. poetry scene. Recent chapbooks include bird-book (House Press / Detumescence), The Plasticity of Poetry and Telling Time (No Press), and Shifting Landscapes (above/ground press). Her first book, Organic Furniture Cellar, is available from Outside Voices.

david antin:

theres a word close to talking a word that may finally
mean talking but used to have a very grand meaning a
word myth which has a very grand meaning for most people
and i know that robert duncan has given a lot of attention
to the word "myth" the one definition he did leave out when
he rehearsed the definitions for the middle voice greek verb
mytheomai is to talk which it was it was a verb "to
talk" and "to tell" and it was a verb meaning "to put a rap
in the air" when odysseus the great con-man the
trickster gets up to talk in council he "myths" and he
"myths" regardless of whether he "myths" the way nobody else
remembers

from talking at the boundaries

[incorrect spacing as you know he talks and how it is printed but i
can't seem to find a way to make blogger take the spaces. so. ]